skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read an article a few years ago that did portray him as a hero: He was spending all this money on inventing new things, often across domains (having engineers create new medicine, etc). And then he was nice enough to licence these new inventions to whomever could use them, for only a modest fee!

It was quite convincingly written (and before all the patent troll stories surfaced). I guess he sees himself as that person.

I looked for it, and think it was this one, or a similar piece: http://www.technologyreview.com/featured-story/401437/the-in...
Twitter account claiming to represent Anonymous claims to shut down Facebook.
Cory Doctorow, AMA
The less wealthy an individual, the greater an effect sales taxes have on quality of life; someone who makes $25,000/yr will spend a much greater proportion of income on goods (and thus, taxes) than someone who makes $2,500,000.
I used a few times to figure out why something would work in every browser but IE due to how IE handles event bubble different in DIV hierarchy. 3D view really helped in that regards.
Really? That's not what the U.S. bureau of labor statistics says about employment or income. Are you sure that's not just inherited wealth?

http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm
Not really. It's like Newsweek or Time, but more international, and more in depth. It's certainly skewed towards the financial, but it's really just a news periodical.
Just to clarify: This isn't DRM, it's a patent on how DRM would be implemented.
I'm an MBA and startup founder. I wrote a response to this on my blog:

http://gozman.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/hey-entrepreneur-plea...
ha! exactly!

http://gozman.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/hey-entrepreneur-plea...
Google vs Romney
Living in California, my instinct to read the company name "Jolla" as "hoi-uh" (like La Jolla :), but Google Translate pronounces it as "yo-luh".
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If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were a Republican Party propagandist. Your post is full of absurdities and at least one outright lie.

Its ridiculous, even beyond the ridiculous notion of taxing someone to die, how many times should YOUR money get taxed? Once? Twice? Three times? When does it stop?

Money is taxed almost every time it changes hands. This is entirely reasonable, and the way that the entire world works. If you only taxed each dollar once, after all, you'd have to figure out who the first owner of that dollar in its existence was, and make sure to only tax them.

The point of money is to flow, facilitating debts and trades. It's not supposed to have agency of its own, people are.

Besides, you can't take it with you into the next world. So why not confiscate your wealth when you're too dead to use it? Why not confiscate the ill-gotten gains of capitalists even before they die ;-)?

Our (U.S.) tax code is absolutely horrible, but even with that revenue isn't the problem, spending is. I would say that politicians will ALWAYS spend every dime they have, but in reality they spend money they dont have.

This theory sounds intelligent only by dint of sheer cynicism, and entirely fails to explain the Clinton budget surpluses.
Until DomCrypt[1] is implemented there is no reliable way to implement a CSPRNG in Javascript (that I am aware of!). The only way to do this securely would be to supply a page that includes some javascript to process a secret key that the user provides to the page which would then generate the CSR. It would be more effective to write all of this sites functionality into a shell script.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/
That argument is completely subjective though. Unless you mean spend less to... essentials? I mean where does that even come from? "wealthier people spend less of their wealth"? Is this a statistical fact?(im seriously asking lol).

I am by NO means wealthy lol, but if i had more money i know i would definitely be spending it lol.
The DRM could embed something analogous to a watermark in unseen parts/layers of the physical structure printed, like in the particular path used to fill in some layers. A recording of the stepper motor commands would still have that information encoded in it.
Paleo Diet Lawsuit Dismissed By Court in Blow to Free Expression
Windows Azure Cloud Rap
I didn´t know that facebook=random site, I´ll keep that usefull info in mind though.
Arrays are a fixed size.
eg. t:=[5]int{1,2,3,4,5}

Go can also do the counting for you.
eg. t:=[...]int{1,2,3,4,5}
Wish the music were as interesting.
No Bay Area? So sad...
Well from what I've looked at, it seems that at least four entities will receive copies of every key pair. One to csr.io, one to Google Adsesne, one to Google Analytics, and one for the user.
Thanks for the links! I wasn't aware of Gangplank. I'm definitely going to swing by some of their upcoming events.
if its for IOS only then I cant access it. Also, I question the "geeks like us" part. Why not just publish it as a downloadable PDF or EPUB or something along those lines ?
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On it! We have a new security release coming out next week that allows the use of server-side secrets to lock down both uploads and reads. We've already contacted the author and are happy to work with anyone who is concerned and get them early access
We've updated the Nav bar and got rid of the "glowing green" as well as adjusted the layout of links in the footer. Great suggestions, thanks for pointing these out!
Then you're right - an MBA probably isn't for you.
SublimeText tool to open folder as project from Finder.
On your javascript tutorial, it kept giving me an error when I typed in the string "Javascript" as it instructed.
$1,000,00 net worth for an individual is, in fact, the bottom border of the top 1%.
Much as I appreciate LWN (and subscribe), my understanding is that it is losing money. Jon posts periodic updates on this.
I've resized the logo so it's smaller. We're working on implementing a better payment gateway - the current page that's there now is temporary. Thanks for flagging the issue though with the oversized logo - it did look pretty terrible.
I really liked the Go Tour, which I checked out 3 weeks ago. Then I was a bit disappointed to see that the UI changed some, making it less user-friendly. (Everything used to fit on one page, except for longer examples, for instance.) Still like it overall, though.
It's probably using openssl on the back end which is open source. http://www.openssl.org/
UPDATE: We made a bunch of design improvements based primarily on your feedback. Really appreciate you guys all checking things out and providing good, honest feedback!
The debt will increase with universal health care.

"Seniors are mostly against immigration"

Most Seniors I've talked to are against allowing anybody to come into the country with little or no incentive to pay taxes. This is much different than being against immigration.

"Seniors were more in favor of the Iraq war then younger folks"

Can you provide proof of this?

"Unfortunately I think the baby boomers have had a hand in most of those issues or were too naive to know that they are problems."

Since we are generalizing here, I will thrown my 2 cents in. Some of the opinions I see are similar to a child not listening to their parent because they only see what's in front of them and don't have the life experience or the forethought to see what can and will happen. Many older folks have the life experience and wisdom.

Universal health care is a good example. Every time I see an article on here, Reddit, or anywhere else on the Internet, none of the proponents will talk about the negative effects of universal health care. They aren't even willing to discuss them. I've lived long enough to know that nothing in this world is perfect. If we can't talk about it honestly, I will never vote for it.

I know I'm not alone.
Protip: If you're coming up with a name for your new app, don't choose such a ubiquitous name as "The Magazine".

An effective SEO strategy, mobile or web, will be a nightmare to develop/implement.
See Newton

Are you trying to imply that Newton was somehow an effective software engineer?
It's less about to whom the debt is going so much as where.
Hey Entrepreneur – Please Get an MBA
Canonical making great stride in bringing game development to Ubuntu
Saturday morning cartoons and hackathon (Chicago, Nov. 3)
"The Breakpoint" with Paul Irish and Addy Osmani
The US education system is fine compared to those of Europe and Asia.

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou...

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-well-do-above-...
As much as I hate giving money to a government, I'd rather see my money there when I die that either or both of these 2 things happening.

Then do it. There is no tax minimum; pay more on your taxes, make the US government the recipient of your assets in your will.
In 2010 the IRS received 142 823 000 individual tax returns.

An estimated 52 500 returns will pay estate taxes in 2013.

(52000 / 142823000) * 100 ~= 0.036

You're right. It's not a tax on the "one percent", it's a tax on the "one-third of one-percent"

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/federal_govt_fin...

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/key-elements/es...
I didn't use git early on, but it's pretty unpleasant to use today as well. It's fine if you learn the right incantations but it breaks almost every unix rule in the book. Literally:

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html

There's only a few guidelines there that git obeys. The most obvious one it obeys is "separation".
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If you find yourself in the dystopian future where this is built into your $99 Best Buy 3D printer, just use your printer to make a new printer that's not DRM-encumbered.
How Cellphones Helped Researchers Track Malaria In Kenya
I am not a lawyer at all, but people were asking the same question with regards to features from the iPhone and the movie Minority Report, and someone (who may have not even been a person: probably they were a dog) said that fictional representations do not count: you must have concrete and operational implementations (even though the actual thing you are discussing is just a relatively simple idea; one so simple, you might have gotten it while watching a movie or reading a book published years earlier).
I think this article has been submitted before. (The submission here is not a submission of the canonical URL.) Anyway, by the usual generation labeling in the United States, the most profligate generation in United States history is the "Silent Generation," the generation mostly born during the Great Depression (who make up the parent generation of the younger half of the Baby Boom). They began and sustained the trend of spending far in advance of revenue, all the while thinking that they "earned" their government transfer payments. I, a Baby Boomer, have a higher retirement age than my parents have, and have paid a higher rate of payroll or self-employment taxes into Social Security than my parents generally did.

But the submitted article is correct that the older generations in the United States will have to rethink their attitude toward "entitlements" (transfer payments) even more if our children's generation is to have any prospect of continued economic growth. On my part, I'm happy to see my retirement age nudged up some more, and also for old-age benefits and other government benefits to take actual cuts (rather than merely decreases in their rate of increase over time) to make sure that they are funded on an actuarially sound basis. I vote like that, and I discuss the issue with my generation-mates in these terms. The older should be helping the younger, in general, not the other way around.
This article title is totally incorrect it misses a layer of logic. A better title would be: "Nathan Myhrvold's Cunning Plan to get royalties from 3D printer DRM software".
Nathan Myhrvold was issued a patent on 3D printer DRM software, good it will put a barrier in place for anyone wishing to make DRM software which fights piracy, so actually Nathan Myhrvold is helping 3D printer piracy.
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Thanks for the report. A really interesting read for the engineer in me. Under "primary cause analysis" on page 18 of the report (pg 24 of the pdf) it says that they may have actually been related:

In summary, after the right engine failed due to fuel ingestion, the left engine had to push some air over to the non-functioning engine (for cooling I assume but it isn't stated). When the left engine afterburner did not light, it's "relight logic" did not trigger possibly because of the lower air amount. So the engineer who wrote the relight logic, assumed that the temperature would drop at a certain rate when the afterburner failed to light. Because the engine was working to assist the failed engine, that temperature drop did not happen and thus the afterburner did not attempt to automatically relight itself.

Sounds like it may be dependent after all.
Please everybody remember that inherited assets are not all money. Some things have sentimental value, like the home you grew up in or 100 year old furniture made by a great-great grandpa. Those things should stay in a family and not be ripped away by the government.

Of course, as people have already pointed out they can just be given away before death. As long as it's not a sudden, unexpected death.
Edison's contributions have all fallen by the wayside

I know it's kind of trendy right now to deify Tesla and demonize Edison, but... really?
I would agree with Linus that we should not have an a priori ideology, but I think his argument carves off quite a bit more than that, he's against unified architectures per se, not only ones derived a priori.
The Clinton budget surpluses were simply the result of one kind of debt going down. Gross debt went up.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=FYGFD
The US education system is fine compared to those of Europe and Asia.

The factual statement is incorrect as to results of instruction, and the statement is well known to be incorrect by any widely traveled person who has studied the educational system in multiple countries, especially those who have made specific study of typical school textbooks and teaching methods in various countries.

Anyway, the links offered in support of your prima-facie false statement are not written by a person who is familiar with United States education and have been called out before here on Hacker News as crap links, contrary to

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads."

AFTER EDIT: As I go out to take my son to his soccer practice, it occurs to me that the factual assumption in the grandparent comment needs examination as well. It IS a fact that schools are quite well funded in the United States compared to how they are funded in other countries. School funding in the United States is quite uneven from region to region, but in almost all regions is well above world averages, and some United States schools receive more dollars per pupil than schools nearly anywhere. So my statement about the RESULTS of schools in the United States should be interpreted as a statement that United States schools disappoint compared to what a large percentage of public funds are devoted to them. Many countries do better in that regard of efficiency. To the point of the submitted article, one fiscal overhang that older generations of school employees are leaving for younger generations of pupils and students is large pension obligations for those school employees, which are far from fully funded in most states, and are very lavish by worldwide standards.

SECOND EDIT: The ball is in your court this time, yummyfajitas. I invite the readers of HN to determine whether you have ever been a straight shooter on this issue any of the many times you have submitted that crap link. I'm not aware that you have done any of the travel or reading necessary to evaluate the statements in those links accurately. Let's ask lots of HN participants to take a close look at the actual evidence on education peformance per dollar expended in different countries and think carefully about how well the United States is really doing. (My user profile, which readers can view in my absence from this discussion, explains some of my basis for knowledge for why I say the United States school system does not do as well as it ought to do.)
In Digital War, Patents Are The Weapon Of Choice
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/09/new_attack_ag...
Another Cyber attack Hit Regions Bank and SunTrust
Gender estimation is a must-have feature in modern face detection / recognition software. However, I'm not sure where it is used in real-life besides targeted advertising or some toy applications as you mentioned. For now, we will leave it for our users to decide how to use this feature.

Why did we added it? Well, "because we could".
I think this is where the phrase "It goes without saying" comes from. Of course most people agree that litigious pseudoscience is bad. People don't make comments to that effect because it is like reading a newspaper article about a mugging and going to the comments to point out that the mugger sounds like a very mean person.

Basically, outrage is a boring thing to read about. If we have productive ideas about what to do about this, that's good, and if we have insights about the matter (e.g. the Romanian legal system), that's good, but it's fairly pointless just to comment, "Grr, this is wrong and I am very angry, rabble rabble rabble."
good read. I am working on something built in scratch using Flask and so far, it has been a breeze in understanding the document, source code and samples provided on the pocoo site.
Also, given the feedback, we're implementing a way to set the max file size on your developer portal. Fix should go out in the next 10-15 minutes
India campaigns to have the next version of Android after an Indian sweet
One of the rarely addressed big problems with inheritance tax is that it frequently forces the liquidation of small businesses that are otherwise going concerns in order to pay the tax bill.
Whatever other arguments are being made for or against an estate tax, I'll just say if you goal is to move assets from the boomers' generation to their children's generation, putting a tax on transfers from the boomers' generation to their children's generation seems a very very weird way of doing it.
Windows 8 Shoehorns Touch Into Desktops And Laptops: This Won’t End Well
"One overriding idea" is a type of dogma. Working towards simplicity is a good thing, but being dogmatic about an architectural principle is not.
You should see him when someone breaks a nail.
Making Google Maps more comprehensive with biggest Street View update ever
No, it's a tax on the 0.97769%. http://www.advisorone.com/2012/06/20/top-10-countries-with-m...

I believe the tax only effects the money over $1,000,000, you can also gift $14k/year tax free to each individual. I would expect that you really would need to have something along the lines of 1.5million in hard assets to even have to do much in the lines of tax planning, and using irrevocable trusts I'm fairly certain you can avoid taxes to a much higher number than that.
It's a fork. ESR's still the "official" maintainer, but no one truly owns hacker culture.
Checked Google.ca. For Colon Help your blog from July of Last year is 5th. The first couple are theirs. And the 4th one is irrelevant; it's about semicolon's.

It's quite shitty that after all this time Romania is still such a piece of work. Every month or so I read up on more stuff regarding it, and thank my folks for coming to Canada 6 years ago.
That is a really cool GIF. I love how you can see the "echo" of the baby boom when they started having their own kids.

It also shows the incredible increase in life-expectancy we have seen over the past century. Instead of dying off, the top of the chart just seems to grow upward.
You dont, i hate both parties :). Our party system as it is right now does little to help our government operate. But to your point, yes i am definitely conservative, but i would never call myself a republican.

Though i will ask you as far as Clintons budget surplus who was the ruling party in congress(the ones who make the decisions/changes) during this time?

Also what lead the the housing bubble that was the primary cause of the economic situation we are in right now? Clinton lowering mortgage interest rates and requires comes to mind(that and fannie mae and freddie mac). While he was praised for these two things and honestly they had good intentions. We all know what the road to hell is paved with so the saying goes.
The greatest challenge I have faced through this was transferring the money internationally. My first order I did an international wire transfer from my credit union and it took 7 days, went pretty smooth. My second order the credit union had switched companies for processing wire transfers. Took them over 30 days to finally return my money. They thought it was fraud; I tried to explain to the wire transfer company that I had made the same wire transfer 3 months prior, but they weren't convinced.

My next solution was to try Western Union online. Their system is awesome. Took a couple of days to get my business approved (faxing docs and such) but then I was able to make the transfer no problem. Coincidentally, I messed up the account number and so after a week of the money not showing up in my distributors account Western Union corrected my error within 15 minutes of me realizing it. My third order the money went through in 10 hours and all of the account information was saved from the previous order, making it really simple.

Right now I email back and forth with my 'contact' in China. She is very good and really all I need to order goods. I noticed your site is a lot about tracking the products. I get a DHL tracking number before the products leave the facility and can watch them from HK to US. I don't have photos, but I am sure I could get them. I sorta like the gamble...

How are you guys going to stop companies from intercepting potential customers and getting them to pay directly?
So far, we have received reports from Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Norway, Romania, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.

The reports look localized to Europe and parts of northwestern Middle East, but doesn't include the British Isles. This could be just network disruptions or routing issues between the European mainland and Dublin.
Amazon solves this with shared keys, and is filepicker's up coming solution. You might want to look into doing it like that.
I spent today reading about Avon because of an article that I found on Linkedin, followed up by a search fueled my own curiosity and drive to learn. I found it really, really interesting.
This sounds similar to what face.com was offering... as a developer any major difference I should be aware of?
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Some practical arguments against a sales tax:
- It is a disincentive towards spending and would hurt the economy
- It creates a black market, encouraging tax avoidance and organized crime
- It incentives consumption abroad

And some in favor of progressive taxation:
- Letting the lowest earners keep their money can be cheaper than taking it and then giving it back through inefficient social services
- Tax cuts on low earners translate to increased spending better than tax cuts on high earners

Regarding fairness, how is it fair that one person is born to wealthy parents and inherits $5 million while another inherits nothing, but unfair to set tax rates based on income?
It's not THAT easy. Gifts are taxable:
http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Em...

So are trust fund transfers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation-skipping_transfer_ta...
Is it raining in Portland?
Not from the US but France, where there is a law mandating specific minimum percentage to be left to various family members